r/diamondpainting • u/playful_faun • 4d ago

Tips / Tricks / Tools How do you store your extra drills?

I'm open to hear about any storage options, but especially anything that minimizes the space used.

Right now I'm staying with a friend, so I don't have a lot of room for craft stuff, but when I have my own place I'm definitely hoping to have a corner devoted to diamond painting. I haven't seen a lot of storage options that aren't huge and clunky.

I'm thinking about binder pockets for coin collections lol

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u/Dontfeedtheunicorn81 4d ago

I started storing in the baggies and labeling the bags with the DMC number. When I start a new kit, I’ll look to see if any are the same as the new kit and use those first. I have small canisters to use for the current kit I’m working on.

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u/itssosquishyyy 4d ago

I feel like I should be keeping track of the DMC numbers after seeing everyone’s storage. When I started the other day, I was throwing the #’s away.

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u/Dontfeedtheunicorn81 4d ago

I think it’s harder when people do kits from different companies. I know some people won’t mix DAC drills with other ones. I never plan on buying from DAC, so I don’t have to worry about that. After I get a good bit of leftover drills, I’m going to send it to the person in FL to use. She is listed in posts on this subreddit.

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u/playful_faun 4d ago

This is how I am. I only buy cheap ones from aliexpress so I'll happily mix drills.

I have a ton of extra trays and pens though that I plan to send out.

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u/Lopsided_Young8168 4d ago

I have only a few kits of DAC. Those extra drills go in with the others. Same color. I save all drills because I’m a cross stitcher and love to have as many colors as possible. Someday I’ll have enough extras to make my own picture. I don’t do square drill charts. I only use the DMC number. This number never changes.

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u/Dontfeedtheunicorn81 4d ago

Oh I didn’t know the squares had a different number! I don’t like how the squares have to be, so I don’t plan on buying those. But good to know! Do you notice a big difference in the DAC and other drills?

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u/Lopsided_Young8168 3d ago

The squares don’t have different numbers. They are square which is why I separate them. Lol

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u/playful_faun 4d ago

I printed out the whole DMC chart and glue diamonds to it so I can keep track of colors!

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u/playful_faun 4d ago

So far I have all my finished kits separated but I didn't think about using old diamonds first!

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u/BMW71892 4d ago

Me, either!

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u/the_butterfly_grrl 4d ago

Binder pockets are prime.

This is my current tool and drill storage/organization set up.

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u/playful_faun 4d ago

This is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind and I'm so glad to see that it works so well!

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u/the_butterfly_grrl 4d ago

And the DMC numbering was annoying and time consuming but absolutely worth it because now, if any kits are short on drills, I can just look up the official number and boom, there they are.

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u/playful_faun 4d ago

I have adhd and autism and I've actually been craving doing a big official putting them all in order lmao. I had no idea exactly how to go about it, but this is peak. Thanks for sharing!

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u/StrikePitiful288 3d ago

I used to just throw them away but then I found this colute container so I started mixing all my extra drill in this. I also have another container that's almost full but it's not clear like the one pictured

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u/playful_faun 3d ago

Oh I love that! It's like those old sand art things

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u/Zillagirl1969 4d ago

This is how I store my extras. Sometimes it comes in really really handy when you run out of them.

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u/playful_faun 4d ago

I love this! I think my adhd wild be overwhelmed, but some kind of a drawer system would probably be amazing!

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u/5ymphy 4d ago

I store them in the little baggies that comes with most kits. Then I put it in a sandwich ziploc bag and label it. I plan to eventually throw it out if no drills fall out. The only drills I would keep are DACs.

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u/playful_faun 4d ago

That's a good way to keep it all clean and contained. I'm eventually planning on printing out my own pixel art.

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u/livvybugg 4d ago

I save some of my favorite colors to use as accents on other Rhinestoning projects and throw the rest out. I used to save them but I literally never reached for them ever so they were just taking up space for me.

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u/SoonerRyan01 4d ago

In the trash.

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u/playful_faun 4d ago

If you don't have don't nice to say, you can simply say nothing tbh.

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u/_LOST4ever 3d ago

What wasn’t nice to say lol???

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u/playful_faun 3d ago

I man I get you're being joking, but it's kind of like coming into a space where people are talking about their collections and just being like, "oh that's literally trash to me".

Idk I'm honestly autistic and tone is hard online. I can see you were probably not being rude, actually.

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u/_LOST4ever 3d ago

Please Read your question again. This is how some store them. Extra drills are not art, a lot of people just throw them away. It was an honest and humorous response but not offensive

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u/playful_faun 3d ago

No, you're right. I've been made fun of for hobbies a lot, and I probably processed it as rude because of my own problems.

Tbh though I do think there is an org that takes extra supplies to make kits for people who can't afford them! I'm keeping all my drills but I have all my trays and pens saved up to send out a gift box one of these days :)

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u/_LOST4ever 3d ago

This is the answer

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u/happytwink59 3d ago

I use this. I have had some pieces that have more than 24 colors but I kind of eye and put the colors that are used the most in the boxes and leave the others in the bags. Both the top tray and bottom tray are lines to line up the drills.

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u/playful_faun 3d ago

Oh I love that for a WIP

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u/value1lady 3d ago

DAC is so expensive my goodness 70 something for some im like I can not afford that lord im not rich. They r excellent paintings but geez the prices

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u/playful_faun 3d ago

Yeah I've never used them because of the price! I also love small aliexpress paintings that end up like bad pixel art lol

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u/DP_Maylene 4d ago

I have my extra in bigger zip lock with labels of company. But everything fit in one old ice cream container. Will probably mix my temu extra drill together unless its from a mid range brand like wowo art and senterwan.

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u/_LOST4ever 3d ago

A cheap storage container